The Earliest Inhabitants: Native Americans

Based on artifacts excavated in and around Port Royal, archaeologists estimate that the area was inhabited as early as 11,000 years ago. At the time the English arrived, the area was occupied by tribes united in a confederacy ruled by ...

Native Americans on Clear Creek

For many years, the Ute Indians lived in the mountains west of the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon, hunting and trading with area travelers. The Arapaho, refugees from the Great Lakes region, and the Cheyenne arrived in the area during ...

Native Americans on the Georgia Coast

Long before Europeans arrived in the New World,

the Savannah area was occupied by Native Americans.

The earliest Paleoindian groups migrated into coastal

Georgia as early as 10,000 B.C. The hunter-gathers

took advantage of rich estuarine resources as well as

upland plants and animals. ...

Native Americans

Connecting to the Sea for Centuries

The Mohegan and Pequot people of southeastern Connecticut and their ancestors have used the coastal resources of eastern Long Island Sound for thousands of years. Native people made ocean-going canoes to harvest fish, trade, and ...

Prehistoric Native Americans / Historic Native Americans

(Circa 8,000 B.C. ~1500 A.D.) / (Circa 1550 A.D.~ 1816 A.D.)

Side A

This area near the mouth of Cypress Creek was inhabited by Archaic People as early as 8,000 B.C. Their main food consisted of freshwater mollusks from the river.

(These mussels ...

Tampa Native Americans

Buried Remains

Here lie buried the remains

of a small group of

Native Americans who perished

about 200 years ago.

These remains were discovered

in 1987 during the construction

of the Tampa Convention

Center.

Let us honor the memory

of ...

Native Americans

Assateague's first visitors were small bands of nomadic Indians who had permanent settlements on the mainland. These hunters and gatherers came seasonally to the island to enjoy the rich harvest of waterfowl, fish, oysters, clams, and plant foods.

Little is ...

Erie Area Native Americans

Native American influence on this area of northwestern Pennsylvania pre-date the 1492 encounter by at least 13,500 years.

Erie County is named after its first known inhabitants, the Erie Nation.

The Erie Nation, also known as the Cat Nation, bordered other aboriginal ...

A Natural Magnet for Native Americans

Cast your gaze downstream and try to imagine a landscape unaltered by European settlement and the Industrial Age. It is difficult today to appreciate the abundance of natural resources that once surrounded the mouth of Crosswicks Creek even as recently ...

Native Americans Exchange Furs for European Goods

The lifestyle of the Lenape changed forever upon contact with Europeans. One source of change was the European appetite for furs in making robes, coats, hats and gloves. Dutch, Swedish and English explorers and traders exchanged items of metal, glass ...